Elon Musk faces allegations of racial segregation, discrimination, and harassment at Tesla’s San Francisco Bay area factory, with a lawsuit filed against the company and has been sued on Wednesday. 

The accusations were made against the agency received hundreds of complaints, with factory bosses and co-workers also accused of making racial jokes.

The head of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing Kevin Kish said, ‘We found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont facility is a racially segregated workplace where black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, punishment, compensation, and promotion.’

‘THE FACTS ON THIS CASE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES,’ MR. KISH ADDED. 

In response, Tesla said that the company, “opposes all types of discrimination and harassment” and that it was committed to providing “a workplace that is safe, courteous, fair, and inclusive.”

But the case file against Tesla accused bosses and other workers of often referring to areas in the factory with large numbers of black or African-American workers as “the plantation.” According to the case file, they would also regularly be “taunted by racial slurs and then provoked into verbal and physical confrontations” by non-black workers and then face disciplinary action.

‘THESE RACIAL SLURS WERE SHOUTED 50 TO 100 TIMES A DAY,’ ONE WORKER SAID.

Black workers were “confronted with racist writing at Tesla daily,” including graffiti featuring “swastikas, the Confederate flag, a white supremacist skull,” and “KKK,” it is alleged.

Non-black staff at the factory were given preferential treatment, including easier tasks and leniency in disciplinary hearings, while workers would display racist tattoos to terrify black employees according to the court papers said. 

In December, six women filed a lawsuit against Tesla, alleging a culture of sexual harassment at the facility and elsewhere. It said the lawsuit appeared to relate to alleged misconduct that took place between 2015 and 2019 but said it would ask the court to “pause the case and take other steps to ensure that facts and evidence will be heard.”

Tesla warned against “attacking a company that has done so much good for California.”

Details of the lawsuit have yet to be released and Tesla didn’t immediately issue a response to the lawsuit, which the electric carmaker had warned was coming several days earlier in an annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.